The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced all 3 participating squads in the Women T20 Challenge, to be held in UAE, starting on November. It will be a short T20 competition, spanning from November 4-November 9, will be the third edition of the Women’s T20 Challenge that saw its inaugural year in 2018. The opening game will be held between Supernovas and Velocity on November 4.
As BCCI has announced the squads for the three teams in the Women’s T20 Challenge, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Mithali Raj have been named as captains of Supernovas, Trailblazers and Velocity respectively.
The All-India Women’s Selection Committee, that was formed on September 26 this year, named the three squads. Earlier, the BCCI had appointed former India Women’s cricketer Neetu David as the head of the new All-India Women’s Selection Committee.
“The best of Indian women’s cricket will combine with some of the leading stars from England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh and New Zealand in a four-match tournament. Thailand’s Natthakan Chantham, who scored her country’s first Women’s T20 World Cup half-century, adds another feather to her cap as she will become the first Thai cricketer to feature in the tournament. The All-India Women’s Selection Committee picked the three squads”: a statement released by the BCCI said.
Here are the full squads:
Supernovas: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Jemimah Rodrigues (VC), Chamari Atapattu, Priya Punia, Anuja Patil, Radha Yadav, Taniya Bhatia (WK), Shashikala Siriwardene, Poonam Yadav, Shakera Selman, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Ayushi Soni, Ayabonga Khaka, Muskan Malik
Trailblazers: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Deepti Sharma (VC), Punam Raut, Richa Ghosh, D. Hemalatha, Nuzhat Parween (WK), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Harleen Deol, Jhulan Goswami, Simaran Dil Bahadur, Salma Khatun, Sophie Ecclestone, Natthakan Chantham, Deandra Dottin, Kashvee Gautam
Velocity: Mithali Raj (captain), Veda Krishnamurthy (VC), Shafali Verma, Sushma Verma (WK), Ekta Bisht, Mansi Joshi, Shikha Pandey, Devika Vaidya, Sushree Dibyadarshini, Manali Dakshini, Leigh Kasperek, Danielle Wyatt, Suné Luus, Jahanara Alam, M. Anagha